Separator.



No. 754,394. PATENTED MAR. 8, 1904. H. J. SILVIS. ASBPARATOR.\ APPLIOATION FILED DB0. 24, 1902.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

I Juwroz Harry JAY-lvm Guam,

N0 MODEL s, .g l i 31 @Vi l'uenaeb gyw@ WTS@

PATENTBD MAR. 8, 1904. H. J. sILVIs SEPARATOR. APPLIUATION FILED 15H0. 24,v 1902.

N0 MODEL.

, Patented. isrch 8,

#hren-ruft. iinirsn tirarse italiani* HARRY J. SILVS, F GREENSBURG, PENNSYLVANA, A SSGNOR Qld @NE-'- HALF TO Z. T. SILVIS, OF GREENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

SEPAFATQH.

SEECIFICTION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,394, dated Merel; Q, 1904i.

Application filed Decmber 24, 1902. Serial Eo. 136,491. (F0 medali To @LZ whom it may concern:

Be it `known that I, HARRY J. SiLvs, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Greensburg, in the county of West-` moreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and .useful Improvements in Separatore, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to an improvement in 1o grainseparators; and itconsists, primarily, in the provision of a separating means which can be placed in any of the threshing-machines now in use and is simple, cheap, easily operated and compact, besides being eiiicient in operation.

A. further object is to provide a means Whereby a continuous and positive feeding and separation of the grain is eected without the use of orarie-shafts, thereby reducing the vibration of the separator to e. minimum. Y

This invention is designed as an improvement upon a portion of the structure set forth inthe .application filed July 20, i901, Serial No. 69,142, of which Henry White and myself are-joint inventors, and i am awarethat the present structure resembles that shown in the prior application above referred to; but wish it understood that I do not Wish to claim any of the subject-matter shown therein, but to coniine myself to the novel `features disclosed for the 'tiret time in this present application.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure l is avievv in eide elevation of iny invention, shoW- ing it attached to a separator. Fig. 2 is aside elevation detached from the separator. Fig. 3 is a side view of one of the bars to which my improvement is attached. Fig. e is a detail vieu7 of one of the hangers which support 'the table. Fig. 5 is a top view of one section of 4-0 the traveling beaters. Fig. 6 is a detail-in top plan view of my improvement.

` Similar characters refer to' similar parts throughout the several views. I

'In applying my improvement -to the ordinary type of grain-separators provide anglo bars'a, which are secured to the easing of the separator (not shown on the drawings) by bolts iviiiela. pass through the downwardly-deA 'pending portion e of the angle-bars and the casing. Both ends of the bolts are threaded'so and adapted to receive the nuts ci', which are brought in Contact with the depending portion of the angledron and tbe exterior surface of the casing, securely bracing the frame of the separator and supporting the bars. .515

AShafts e, having sprocket-Wheels f fitted upon each end, are journaed in the sides of the casing transversely therewith.

Sprocketcheins g are mounted upon the sprocket-wheels f and are adapted to rotate thereon continuously when motion is imparted through the medium of the shaft Z, upon which.

a worm-gear z' is mounted, meshing with gear y', mounted on the sprocket-shaft. y

in constructing the sprocket-chain a nu'rn- 6K; ber of the links are provided with lugs fr, having suitable apertures provid ed therein, forming bearings for shafts m, upon which are mounted a series of traveling beaters n. lhe traveling beaters are composed of sheet metal. 7o blanked out, leaving the aprons n', which forms a series of fingers.' The lingers mergev into a blank portion nu, which is attached to a plate or braclretf, having a downwardly-pro" jecting lug ni, made integral with the plate S2, 7 5 which lug carries a roller a5. One or more sections ofthe traveling beaters are mounted upon the shafts, and as inotionis imparted to the sproeketechains the lrollers n are brought in Contact with similar rollers n, mounted upon 8o -sliafts 0, journaled in the casing at an angle with the travel of the beaters. This arrangement provides a means of imparting motion to the beaters alternately,v asshown in the drawings, giving a continuous oscillating motion in the are of a Circle, thereby thoroughly agitatingth-e grainend separating, it from the ebaii". .er corrugated andperforated table p is supported by the depending hangers p', whiob are attached to the anglebars, and when the 9C beaters are on their return travel they drop lby gravity onto the table, distributing the grainA over the surface of the table.

What i claim asiny invention, and desire tov secure by Letters' -Patent, is

1. in attachment for grainseparators corn- 'prising a pair of bars attachable interiorly of the separator, rotatable shafts journaled in tbe bars, traveling means carried by the shafts, beaters carried` by the traveling means, and means for causing an oscillation of the beaters.

2. An attachment for grain-separators,comprising1 a pair of bars detachably secured interiorly of the separator, shafts journaled in the bars, traveling belts passing over the shafts, beaters carried by the belts, means for oscillating the beaters, hangers depending from the bars, and a screen supported by the hangers beneath the beaters, the latter adapted to drag over the screen on their return movement.

3. As an article of manufacture, an attachment for separators comprising a pair of bars attachable to the separator;a traveling beaters supported by the shafts, hangers depending from the shafts and a screen carried by the hangers beneath the beaters, the mechanism in its entirety being bodily removable from the separator.

4. An attachment for separators comprising a pair of bars attachable to the separator, traveling means carried thereby, beaters supported by the traveling means, each beater comperingfrom the ends of the fingers to the blank portion, tersti'ces.

5. As an article of manufacture, an attachment for separators comprising a pair of bars removably secured to' the Walls ot the separater, bearings formed in and carried by the bars, shafts received in the bearings, traveling beaters carried by the shafts, and rods received in the bearings in the bars, the traveling]r beaters adapted to impinge against the ro s.

Signed at Mansfield this 27th day of October, 1902.

the fingers separated by tapering in- HARRY J. SILVIS. 

